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482 & 2. Francis, or Frank, Wright (1844–1903) was Garrison’s brother-in-law. He died in St. Louis on June 16, after his sister Ellen Garrison returned to the East Coast. Wright was remembered as the father of baseball at Harvard, having organized and pitched the first game played there in 1863. At the time of his death, he worked as an auditor of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. (Alumni files, MH-Ar; Wright family genealogy, Garrison Papers, MNS-S.) 3. History, 4:395. When reprinting William Garrison’s poem about SBA’s eightieth birthday, an error of punctuation occurred: the fourth line, intended to conclude a thought, ended with a comma, creating an eight-line pileup of thoughts.It appeared as written in Report of the Thirty-second Annual Convention, 1900, p. 10, Film, 40:829ff. Corrected, the poem began: The gibe and ridicule and social frown, / That through long years her faithful life assailed, / Are dead and vanished; as a queen now hailed, / Upon her reverend brow rests Honor’s crown. ••••••••• 239 • SBA to Margaret A. Haley1 [Rochester, before 6 July 1903] 2 Miss Margaret A. Haley, the Brunswick Hotel 3 —My Dear Friend: Your long letter, and then your telegraph message, came duly, but I could not say “yes” to them. I know how you feel, that I ought to be in Boston with you at this crucial hour, and if I could go “on the wings of the wind” and be set down there for a few minutes, and then hie me back to my home, I might think of seeing you; but the thought of the crowds of women that will be there overwhelms me. So you must give my love to all of them, and tell them, each and all, that they must stand up for the rights of women, not only for themselves and for their own comfort and advancement,but for the rights of woman as woman.You teachers of to-day will make a precedent for the women of tomorrow and next year, just as the teachers of the past have made a precedent for you to be ignored on the program to-day. Had the women of each year been true to woman’s best interests instead of their own quiet and ease, you would have a great deal easier time in asserting yourselves to-day. I hope you will maintain the right of women to be on the program committee next year, and that you will insist upon their recognition in all positions of honor and emolument equally with men. Women must have equal pay for equal work, and they must be considered equally eligible to the offices of principal and superintendent, professor and president. The saying that women have equal pay is absurd while they 12 june 1903 ^ 483 are not allowed to have the highest positions which their qualifications entitle them to; so you must insist that qualifications, not sex, shall govern the appointments to the highest positions. With best wishes for all, yours for equal rights and equal chances, U Susan B. Anthony. Y Woman’s Journal, 11 July 1903. 1. Margaret Angela Haley (1861–1939),a former teacher in the public schools of Chicago, was president of the National Federation of Teachers and business agent of the Chicago Teachers’ Federation. She spent a day with SBA when Rochester’s Political Equality Club and the city’s teachers invited her to lecture on 16 January 1903 about her success finding new money for Chicago’s schools by focusing on untaxed corporate property. Since then, Haley had importuned SBA to join her in Boston for meetings of the National Education Association and the National Federation of Teachers. While declining Haley’s invitation, SBA wrote two open letters to Haley about women,work,and wages.Haley published the first,dated 27 June 1903 and addressed to Chicago, in a special convention issue of the Chicago Teachers’ Federation Bulletin, 3 July 1903. SBA sent this undated, second letter to Boston,where Haley read it aloud to the National Federation of Teachers meeting. When the Chicago Teachers’ Federation Bulletin resumed publication in the school year, this letter was reprinted in the issue of 2 October 1903. (ANB; NAW; Battleground : The Autobiography of Margaret A. Haley,ed.Robert L.Reid [Urbana,Ill., 1982], 128–40; Rousmaniere, Citizen Teacher, 106–11; Anthony, 3:1290–92; SBA to M. A. Haley, before 27 June and 27 June 1903, and SBA diary, 16...

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